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Subject: VICTORIA Digest - 28 Sep 2003 to 29 Sep 2003 (#2003-62)
There are 33 messages totalling 825 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Ruskin Drawings -Thanks
2. swimming (15)
3. image of the professor (4)
4. Re Swimming
5. Re Cornwell on Jack the Ripper
6. VICTORIA Digest - 27 Sep 2003 to 28 Sep 2003 (#2003-61)
7. Swimming (5)
8. Pronunciation of Froude (2)
9. Pronouniation of Froude
10. Children's reading
11. Women writers of Urban Gothic
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:03:55 +1000
From: Anuradha Chatterjee <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Ruskin Drawings -Thanks
Dear Sara Atwood, John Hunter and Sharon A Weltman,
Thank you for being so helpful with pointing out the sources for Ruskin
drawings.
Regards,
AC
Anuradha Chatterjee
PhD Candidate, Faculty of Built Environment
1013, Postgraduate Research Centre,
Red Centre West Wing,
University of New South Wales NSW 2052 AUSTRALIA
Ph (W): + 61 2 93856372
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:57:17 +0100
From: RSM Fowler <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: swimming
After EBB's death in 1861 Robert Browning spent several summers in
Brittany, where he learned to swim. Sea-bathing gave him some new
sensations and ideas--see, for example, *Amphibian* (the
Prologue to *Fifine at the Fair*). This was recreational swimming,
though, and not at all athletic! With best wishes for your project,
Rowena
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:17:13 EDT
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: swimming
Dear Shannon:
An 1847 guide to the techniques of swimming: Charles Wessely, _The Science
of Swimming_ (NY: Fowlers and Wells).
Also, for the ever popular Victorian sport of channel swimming, see Margaret
A Jarvis's _Captain Webb and 100 Years of Channel Swimming_ (1975). Captain
Webb was the first in 1875. The first woman, Annette Kellerman, swam the
channel because "English high society was not going for mermaids enough to
keep the wolf in his den."
Charles Sprawson's _Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero_
discusses Victorian swimming.
Deborah Lutz
English Department
Hunter College
695 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:00:00 -0500
From: "Felluga, Dino" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: image of the professor
A good critical work that examines the formation of the "intellectual" by
the end of the nineteenth century is W. T. Heyck's _The Transformation of
Intellectual Life in Victorian England_ (London: Croom Helm, 1982). For
one famous treatment of the professor in literature, see Vladimir Nabokov's
_Pale Fire_, though it appears later than may be useful (1962).
Dino Felluga
Purdue University
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:01:03 +0100
From: lee field <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re Swimming
There's a lot of swimming in Swinburne's 'Lesbia Brandon', too, including
an illicit swim that ends with the boy being birched, wet and naked, on the
beach. 'Herbert said afterwards that a wet swishing hurt most awfully, a
dry swishing was a comparative luxury'. Swinburne seems to have been as
keen a swimmer as he was a flagellant, and the combination over-excited him
dreadfully. Boys and masters go swimming in more than one of the stories in
Kipling's 'Stalky and Co' as well, if I remember rightly.
Simon Poë
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:09:03 +0100
From: lee field <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re Cornwell on Jack the Ripper
Coming at the question from the Sickert end, there is a very useful account
by Marjorie Lilly, who was in and out of Sickert's studio at the time, of
how Sickert used fantasy, room-sets and dressing-up as part of his creative
process. Lilly even uses the interesting phrase 'the performance of the
drawings'.
"He had two fervent crazes at the moment, crime and the princes of the
Church; crime personified by Jack the Ripper, the Church by Anthony
Trollope. Thus, we had the robber's lair, illumined solely by the
bull's-eye lantern; when he was reading Trollope we had the Dean's bedroom,
complete with iron bedstead, quilt and bookcase. The ecclesiastical flavour
so congenial to him was somewhat marred by the red Bill Sykes handkerchief
dangling from the bedpost; but the presence of this incongruous article in
the Dean's bedroom was not a passing whim; it was an important factor in
the process of creating his picture, a lifeline to guide the train of his
thought, as necessary as the napkin which Mozart used to fold into points
which met each other when he too was composing. Sickert was working now on
one of his Camden Town murders and while he was reliving the scene he would
assume the part of a ruffian, knotting the handkerchief loosely round his
neck, pulling a cap over his eyes and lighting his lantern. Immobile, sunk
deep in his chair, lost in the long shadows of that vast room, he would
meditate for hours on his problem. When the handkerchief had served its
immediate purpose it was tied to any doorknob or peg that came handy to
stimulate his imagination further, to keep the pot boiling. It played a
necessary part in the performance of the drawings, spurring him on at
crucial moments, becoming so interwoven with the actual working out of his
idea that he kept it constantly before his eyes. How it affected his
preoccupation with Church dignitaries I cannot presume to say but there
seemed to be some mysterious connection here too" (Marjorie Lilly, Sickert,
The Painter and his Circle, London, 1971, p15).
There is also a very good recent article by Rebecca Daniels, 'Walter
Sickert and urban realism: Ordinary life and tragedy in Camden Town' (The
British Art Journal, vol III no 2, Spring 2002, pp58-69) which people might
like to read as a scholarly corrective to Cornwell's farrago. Sickert may
have had an unwholesome interest in violence against women, but the very
existence of the Ripper industry proves him to be far from alone in that!
Simon Poë.
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 04:38:46 -0500
From: Ana Maria Garcia-Dominguez <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: swimming
Right at the moment, I can only think of two references. One is to Wilkie
Collins's "No Name" - in Scene 4, Chapter X there is this mention to a habit
of Captain Wragge's that allows the clever housekeeper Mme. Lecount to get
the evidence against the novel's protagonist while her accomplice is taking
an early bath in the sea. This is the actual reference:
"The next morning she rose at seven o'clock. In half an hour more she saw
the punctual Mr. Bygrave--as she had seen him on many previous mornings at
the same time--issue from the gate of North Shingles, with his towels under
his arm, and make his way to a boat that was waiting for him on the beach.
Swimming was one among the many personal accomplishments of which the
captain was master. He was rowed out to sea every morning, and took his bath
luxuriously in the deep blue water. Mrs. Lecount had already computed the
time consumed in this recreation by her watch, and had discovered that a
full hour usually elapsed from the moment when he embarked on the beach to
the moment when he returned."
Actually, I'd like to ask - was swimming considered a male accomplishment?.
I remember having read that the lady who saves her former fiance from
drowning in Reade's "The Course of True Love" is somewhat "improper" in two
things - she can swim and she wears the bloomer.
Hope it helps.
Ana Garcia
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 04:32:02 -0700
From: Mark Chilton <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: swimming
Tail end (sorry) of the period, but Wells's The Sea Lady has swimmers
and a mermaid.
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:50:31 EDT
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: swimming
See "History of Swimming" at: http://www.usswim.org
Richard Mintz
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:57:19 EDT
From: Kishor A Kale <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: VICTORIA Digest - 27 Sep 2003 to 28 Sep 2003 (#2003-61)
In a message dated 29/09/03 05:01:17 GMT Standard Time,
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> I'm currently working on a study of 19th c. representations of athletics
> in literature, and was hoping to appeal to the collective wisdom of the
> list. Can anyone recommend any 19th c. works which deal with swimming or
> characters who pursue the sport?
This is a timely post, given that the Women's World Cup is currently
being held in America! The first sentence that I have quoted have refers to
athletics in general: have you tried Collins's _Man and Wife_, with the
athlete villain and the foot-race at Fulham?
Kishor
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:05:21 EDT
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Swimming
You may want to take a look at Eakins' painting "Swimming" painted in 1884
or so. Eakins also took many photographic studies for the work, which are
often reproduced. If you are not particularly interested in the painting,
perhaps the scholarship about it will lead you to something more useful.
Here are two photos:
<A
HREF="http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/98/1012/museum.htm">http://www.prince
ton.edu/pr/pwb/98/1012/museum.htm</A> <A
HREF="http://www.mimieux.com/arthistory/foto/Fotoart.htm">http://www.mimieu
x.com/arthistory/foto/Fotoart.htm</A> More can be found, I am sure.
Here is the painting:
<A
HREF="http://www.pbs.org/eakins/img_1881.htm">http://www.pbs.org/eakins/img
_1881.htm</A>
Matt
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:44:37 -0400
From: Beth Sutton-Ramspeck <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: image of the professor
There are several works by Mary (Mrs. Humphry) Ward worth looking at. Her
first novel, _Miss Bretherton_ (1884) is told from the point of view of an
Oxford don, and of course a variety of Oxford figures play major roles in
_Robert Elsmere_, which apparently inspired quite a local game of "identify
the real person behind the character" in late 1880s Oxford. Although he's
dead by the time of the action of the book, Laura Fountain's father in
_Helbeck of Bannisdale_ (1898) is a Cambridge scientist who casts a long
shadow on the plot. Jumping ahead into the 19teens (I don't have my books
handy to give the exact date--1916?), _Lady Connie_ is closely based on
Ward's memories of Oxford in the 1880s and features several
professors. Finally, don't overlook Ward's autobiography, _A Writer's
Recollections_ (1818), which paints a vivid picture of Oxford life.
For a corrective to Ward's admiring portrait of Mark Pattison, see Rhoda
Broughton's fictionalized portrait of Pattison in a novel whose title
suddenly escapes me. Someone else will surely know what I mean!
Beth Sutton-Ramspeck
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:50:28 -0700
From: Sheldon Goldfarb <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: swimming
She doesn't compete athletically, but Becky Sharp in Thackeray's Vanity Fair
claims to be able to swim beautifully. (Of course, this is only natural,
given that she is described as a mermaid or siren.)
She jokingly talks of using her swimming ability to effect a reconciliation
with old Miss Crawley by invading her companion's bathing machine:
"Do you know what I intend to do one morning?" she
said; "I find I can swim beautifully, and some day, when
my Aunt Crawley's companion--old Briggs, you know
--you remember her--that hook-nosed woman, with the
long wisps of hair--when Briggs goes out to bathe, I
intend to dive under her awning, and insist on a
reconciliation in the water. Isn't that a stratagem?"
(Chapter 25)
Sheldon Goldfarb
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:23:47 -0400
From: "Elizabeth A. Bridgham" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: swimming
--On Friday, September 26, 2003 9:27 PM -0500 Shannon Rose Smith
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> list. Can anyone recommend any 19th c. works which deal with swimming or
> characters who pursue the sport?
In _The Mystery of Edwin Drood_, we learn that Septimus Crisparkle took up
swimming after his school friend, Mr. Tartar, saved him from drowning -
this leads to a discovery of vital clues later in the novel.
Elizabeth Bridgham
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University of Virginia
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:30:22 -0500
From: Mary Jo Powell <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: swimming
May not fit in with your work but in Can Jane Eyre Be Happy? John =
Sutherland has a short essay "How Good a Swimmer is Magwitch?" in which =
he talks about swimming (as oppposed to "bathing") as being "an unusual =
practice" to Victorians. He says Muscular Christianity made the sport =
more well known.
Mary Jo Powell
Austin, Texas
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:28:56 -0400
From: Beth Sutton-Ramspeck <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: swimming
A couple of women swimmers:
Beth McClure in Sarah Grand's _The Beth Book_ swims (or at least bathes in
the sea) in chapter XXVIII.
If American texts are acceptable, swimming is of pivotal importance in Kate
Chopin's _The Awakening_.
Beth Sutton-Ramspeck
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 13:46:35 -0400
From: Kris Tetens <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Pronunciation of Froude
Before I embarrass myself publicly, can someone tell me please how J. A.
Froude's last name was pronounced? Frood, Frowd, or something else
altogether?
Many thanks.
Kristan Tetens
Michigan State University
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:09:33 +0100
From: Michel Faber <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Pronunciation of Froude
In response to Kris Tetens's enquiry:
> can someone tell me please how J. A.
> Froude's last name was pronounced?
I offer the following bit of doggerel (a re-post from the last time this
question came up, in October 2001)
The thing that always put James Froude
In a peevish and pugnacious mood
Was hearing, from a babbling crowd,
A voice saluting him as Froude.
Best wishes,
Michel Faber
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 13:37:04 -0500
From: "Doris H. Meriwether" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Pronouniation of Froude
I've only heard Frood, but who knows?
Doris Meriwether
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:43:39 +0100
From: Gill Culver <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: swimming
Another swimming woman can be found in George Meredith's *Lord Ormont and
his Aminta* (1894). Aminta, a strong swimmer, takes an ecstatic 'leap out
of bondage' in a lengthy swimming episode, 'A Marine Duet' with her future
partner.
Swinburne's 'A Swimmer's Dream'
R.M. Ballantyne *The Coral Island* (1857)
Annette Kellerman 'Swimming for Ladies' in *Swimming for Health, Exercise
and Pleasure by Experts* (London:Gale and Polden, 1906)
R. Harrington *A Few Words on Swimming with Practical Hints* (John Russell
Smith, 1870)
I have one or two more article/pamphlet titles if you are interested.
Gill Culver,
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:30:32 -0500
From: BEm004176B Adcrafters <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: image of the professor
Real and ghostly professors lurk around Christminster in _Jude the
Obscure_(1896).
Diana Ostrander
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 15:38:57 -0400
From: "Deborah D. Morse" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Swimming
Troy swims in the sea to help assuage his guilt over Fanny Robin's death
and to escape his wife Bathsheba's house. He is caught in a dangerous
current, swept out to sea, and picked up by two sailors who see his "white
form . . . distinctly visible upon the now deep-hued bosom of the
sea." Troy is thought to be drowned, until he returns as a 'stranger' on
Christmas Eve to reclaim Bathsheba. Obviously, naked swimming and
resurrection from the water--whether sacred or profane--are corollary
themes here.
Cheers,
Deborah Denenholz Morse
The College of William and Mary
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 13:23:23 EDT
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Swimming
An image of swimming sets the tone, IMHO, for 800 pages of Anthony
Trollope's _Can You Forgive Her_.:
"Then they stopped and leaned for a while over the parapet of the bridge.
'Come here, George,' said Kate; and she made room for him between herself
and Alice. 'Wouldn't you like to be swimming down there as those boys were
doing when we went out into the balcony? The water looks so enticing.' 'I
can't say I should;---unless it might be a pleasant way of swimming into
the next world.'
'I should so like to feel myself going with the stream,' said Kate;
'particularly by this light. I can't fancy in the least that I should be
drowned.' 'I can't fancy anything else,' said Alice."
Down there is _der_ Rhein, the treacherous waters of which have probably
been partially channelized. The bravadoing boys are probably a common
sight. And this scene is preceded by that of Alice Vavasor, cornered,
behind the bars of the balcony over der Rhein.
Trollope at his very tone-setting best. But, I digress.
Richard Mintz
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 09:00:32 +1200
From: Helen Debenham <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: swimming
There's a truly dreadful poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins about boys
swimming. I don't have the title handy I'm afraid and it won't be in
any 'selected' editions of his poems but once read, never forgotten.
Helen Debenham
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 17:02:17 -0400
From: "Terry L. Meyers" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Swimming
> Obviously, naked swimming and
> resurrection from the water--whether sacred or profane--are corollary
> themes here.
Deborah's comments reminded me of one of the more curious water
images I can recall seeing, "The hallowed lovemaking of Charles and
Fanny," a drawing by Charles Kingsley (see Susan Chitty, The Beast
and the Monk, after p. 160). It depicts the two lovers bound by
ropes to a cross and to each other and in a passionate embrace as the
cross floats on a cresting wave and the sun rises (I presume) on the
horizon.
I suppose it has to do with swimming somehow.....
See, in any case, Swinburne's "A Swimmer's Dream" in
Astrophel and Other Poems (1894).
_________________________________________________________________________
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English Department fax: 757-221-1844
College of William and Mary
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 07:29:04 -1000
From: Gerald D Browne <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: swimming
> I'm currently working on a study of 19th c. representations of
> athletics in
> literature, and was hoping to appeal to the collective wisdom of the
> list. Can anyone recommend any 19th c. works which deal with
> swimming or
> characters who pursue the sport? Other than Byron swimming the
> Hellespont,I'm having difficulty thinking of any. Any suggestions
> will be pursued
> with athletic vigour!
Although it is perhaps not quite what you have in mind, you might look
at John Sutherland's essay "How Good a Swimmer Is Magwitch?" in _Can
Jane Eyre Be Happy?_. Beginning with the impossibility of Magwitch
swimming any distance while encumbered with a heavy leg iron,
Sutherland offers some remarks about swimming during the 19th century.
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 23:08:22 +0100
From: K Eldron <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: image of the professor
"His appearance was quite familiar to me. He is extremely tall and thin, his
forehead domes out in a white curve, and his two eyes are deeply sunken in
his head. He is clean-shaven, pale, and ascetic-looking, retaining something
of the professor in his features. His shoulders are rounded from much study,
and his face protrudes forward and is forever slowly oscillating from side
to side in a curiously reptilian fashion."
This image of the celebrated author of "The Dynamics of an Asteroid", so
rigorously antithetic to that of the cheerful absent-minded Prof., has
impressed itself on swathes of subsequent crime fiction.
It was also an image assiduously cultivated - fertilised, indeed, in a
nourishing decomposition of halitosis, food stains and dandruff - by more
than one professor manqué who haunted my later schooldays....
K Eldron
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 23:29:19 +0100
From: Emelyne Godfrey <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Swimming
The Newlyn artist Scott Tuke painted many pictures of boys swimming and
bathing. A paper was given on this at the Tate Britain Victorian Nude
conference in 2001.
Emelyne Godfrey
Birkbeck
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:37:18 -0700
From: "Margot K. Louis" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: swimming
While several people have now mentioned Swinburne, I don't think anyone has
mentioned his poems "A Swimmer's Dream" or "The Triumph of Time" (in the
latter poem, it's not quite clear whether the speaker is anticipating
swimming or suicide). There is a striking passage in a letter to E.C.
Stedman (see Lang's _Swinburne Letters_) explaining how Swinburne's father
used to throw him into the sea... Any Swinburne bio will discuss
Swinburne's narrow escape from drowning at Etretat.
In Charlotte Yonge's _Pillars of the House_ a boy gets a severe
sunstroke after swimming and then running fast for a long time.
Margot K. Louis
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:20:38 +1000
From: B & D Hughes <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Children's reading
Dear generous, informative Victorialist,
Can anyone enlighten me on books for Victorian children? As part of
current research I found reference to a twelve-year old boy being given a
school prize in 1862 entitled <The Home Tutor A Treasury of Self-Culture
and Complete Library of Useful Knowledge by the Best Masters> Illustrated
with 500 Descriptive Engravings (Ward & Lock London 1862). Would this sort
of 'improving text' have been a common choice by the master of the school?
I have the book, which appears to have been much-used by its recipient who,
as a middle-aged man packed it amongst his treasues when he emigrated to
Australia.
Any thoughts on or off-list are appreciated.
Bronwyn Hughes
PhD candidate
School of Art History, Cinema, Classics and Archaelology
The University of Melbourne
Australia
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 09:17:07 +0800
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Tamara=20Wagner?= <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: swimming
Charles Reade's _Hard Cash_ not only contains a lot of
references to athletics, intellectual versus athletic
qualities and education (anticipating - and in some
ways counterpoising - Wilkie Collins's _Man and Wife_,
which has already been mentioned), and a detailed
description of the bumps (rowing competition) at
Oxford, but one of the many plots of the novel takes
us into the South Seas (and yes, also to the East
Indies, for which I am forever searching in 19th
fiction), where Captain Dodd repeatedly has to exert
his "muscular Christianity" in the water. With IT (the
hard cash) safe in an oilskin cover, he repeatedly
rescues the lives of his crew or passengers, almost
loses IT at one point to find it again when the crew
searches for what they think is a drowning man (but
it's the hard cash in the cover). When IT is
embezzled/stolen on land, he suffers a kind of
apoplexy and is then put in an insane asylum, from
which he escapes when a fire breaks out (rescued by
his athletic son who has turned fireman after the loss
of their fortune). He then runs away to sea once more,
still amnesiac, and almost drowns when rescuing a
seaman - who apparently went swimming for leisure -
suffering from cramp: his near-death experience
reverses his amnesia and he can now remember
everything that happened before his apoplexy, though
not what happened afterwards.
Swimming thus fits in nicely with the general
athletics-theme and the sensation genre's interest in
amnesia, near-death experience, and sudden "cures".
The watery resurrection brings back IT and its
rightful owner:
?O immortal Cash! You, like your great inventor, have
then a kind of spirit as well as a body; and on this,
not on your grosser part, depends your personal
identity. So long as that survives, your body may be
recalled to its lawful owner from Heaven knows where."
Other watery resurrections and deaths can be found in
_Our Mutual Friend_. (The much-later _Women in Love_
keeps springing to mind as well...)
Tamara
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 23:14:42 -0400
From: Jamie Ridenhour <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Women writers of Urban Gothic
Hello all--
I'm working on the Victorian urban gothic, and have a question regarding
women writers: can you think of any? There are obviously women writing
in the Gothic mode in the Victorian era, but I'm having a difficult time
coming up with women writing specifically urban Gothics (I'm interested
primarily in London). I have the feeling that I'm just blanking on some
obvious works--any ideas?
Jamie Ridenhour
University of South Carolina
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 23:22:53 -0700
From: Jerry Kenney <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: swimming
Gill Culver wrote:
> Annette Kellerman 'Swimming for Ladies' in *Swimming for Health, Exercise
> and Pleasure by Experts* (London:Gale and Polden, 1906)
>
>
More than a literary figure, Kellerman was also a figure of scandal when
she dared to appear in a one-piece bathing suit on Revere Beach in
Massachusetts. She was arrested for indecent exposure, but the scandal
achieves the publicity necessary to start Kellerman's film career. The
bioflic, starring Ethel Merman, _Million Dollar Mermaid_ (1952) is a
great deal of fun, especially the courtroom scenes. Kellerman's own
film, _Venus of the South Seas_ (1924) is also available.
Jerry Kenney
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